Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Glasha Beg, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glasha Beg
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03539, -9.37309
- SMR number
- CL008-011----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a flat field of coarse pasture and scrub, with limestone paving to the N, within a relict local field system (CL008-004001-) and a larger multiperiod field system (CL008-109001-). Marked on Robinson's (1977) map. This possible cashel (int. dims. 24.5m NW-SE; 20.5m NE-SW), subrectangular in plan, is defined by a platform (H 0.35-1.1m). A few stone uprights at SW suggest the remains of a stone revetment, while along SE several lengths of a single course of revetting can be seen. It has nearly been scraped away at NW. A house site (CL008-011003-) occupies the centre of the interior and the remains of a possible souterrain (CL008-011002-) are visible to its NE. A circular depression (diam. 3.5m) is visible outside the site, c. 5m to the SE and there is a possible hut site (CL008-151----) c. 23m to the SSE. Two other cashels (CL008-010---- and CL008-012----) lie c. 73m to the NW and c. 96m to the NNE respectively.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL008-011----_01 (centre forerground) view from E
CL008-011----_02 (centre foreground) view from SE
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 22 August 2022
References
Robinson, T. 1977 (revised 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Map scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.